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Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose?
From: Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:58:01 -0500
Questionable cloud / VPS / hosting companies are great for spammers and botnet C&C, but not so great for DDoS "ion cannons". You still need a large volume of geographically diverse endpoints for those to be effective. On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:52 AM Peter E. Fry <pfry () tailbone net> wrote:
Simple question: What's the purpose of obtaining illicit access to random devices on the Internet these days, considering that a large majority of attacks are now launched from cheap, readily available and poorly managed/overseen "cloud" services? Finding anything worthwhile to steal on random machines on the Internet seems unlikely, as does obtaining access superior (in e.g. location, bandwidth, anonymity, etc.) to the service from which the attack was launched. I was thinking about this the other day as I was poking at my firewall, and hopped onto the archives (here and elsewhere) to see if I could find any discussion. I found a few mentions (e.g. "Microsoft is hacking my Asterisk???"), but I didn't catch any mention of purpose. Am I missing something obvious (either a purpose or a discussion of such)? Have I lost my mind entirely? (Can't hurt to check, as I'd likely be the last to know.) Peter E. Fry
Current thread:
- "Hacking" these days - purpose? Peter E . Fry (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Tom Beecher (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Rich Kulawiec (Dec 14)
- RE: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Ryland Kremeier (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? James R Cutler (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Laszlo Hanyecz (Dec 14)
- RE: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Ryland Kremeier (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Mark Tinka (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? David Bass (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Mark Tinka (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Laszlo Hanyecz (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Mark Tinka (Dec 14)
- RE: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Ryland Kremeier (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Tom Beecher (Dec 14)